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Encyclopedia: Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses which African slaves in the 19th century United States used to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists. Other routes led to Mexico or overseas. At its height between 1810 and 1850, an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 people escaped enslavement via the Underground Railroad, though census figures only account for 6,000. The Underground Railroad has captured public imagination as a symbol of freedom, and it figures prominently in Black American history.

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How to say "Underground Railroad" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	地下鐵路 (秘密結社)
	(Japanese)	地下鉄道 (秘密結社)
	(German)	Underground Railroad
	(Spanish)	Ferrocarril Subterráneo
	(French)	Chemin de fer clandestin

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Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead

The Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead is a museum in Newton, Massachusetts dedicated to the city's early development. The museum, once the Jackson family home, was a stop on the underground railroad...

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Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims is a church in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York. It was a station of the Underground Railroad, and the pulpit of Henry Ward Beecher. There is a fragment of Plymouth Rock in the church...

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Thomas Garret

Thomas Garret was a Quaker Abolitionist and a notable "stationmaster" of the Underground Railroad. He helped Harriet Tubman in her escape from slavery, and remained friends with her in later life...

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Fugitive slave

In the history of slavery in the United States, a fugitive slave was a slave who had escaped his or her masters often with the intention of traveling to a place where the state of his or her enslavement was either illegal or not enforced. The Underground Railroad existed to guide fugitive slaves...

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Peterboro, New York

Peterboro is a historic village located in the Town of Smithfield, Madison County in the U.S. state of New York. The Gerrit Smith Estate in the community was a stop on the Underground Railroad and an important meeting place for abolitionists...

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Theodore S. Wright

Theodore S. Wright (1797-1847) was an African-American abolitionist and minister. He was born to free parents in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a minister in the Presbyterian church. He was a conductor for the Underground Railroad in New York...

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Amherstburg, Ontario

Amherstburg (2001 population 20,339; Urban population 10,849) is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Ontario, Canada. The town, across the river from the United States, was permanently established as a British military fort in 1796. During the days of the Underground Railroad, the town...

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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center... took place on August 23. The museum is based on the history of the Underground Railroad, but also pays... by crossing the Ohio River, in the history of the Underground Railroad. The structure The...

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1780 in Canada

cause. Quakers begin the Underground Railroad to smuggle slaves to freedom in Canada. Births Jean...

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A Race Through Dark Places

Bester returns to Babylon 5 to investigate an underground railroad of rogue telepaths. Arc significance...

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